ivalua

AUGUST 12, 2025

In fact, many enterprises lose millions annually to inefficiencies stemming from disconnected sourcing, contract, and supplier management tools. Without integration, procurement teams often struggle to enforce policies or track supplier performance, and it’s difficult to respond quickly to disruption.

Negotiating Skills

My Office Apps

OCTOBER 21, 2024

This ensures that you have complete visibility into where products are coming from and going to, enabling smoother logistics and more effective supply chain management. Monitor Supplier Performance Tracking supplier performance is key to making informed decisions.

Vendor Strategies

ivalua

MAY 21, 2025

Enterprise procurement teams face growing pressure to deliver strategic value – managing supplier risk, ensuring compliance, and supporting sustainability – all without sacrificing speed or control. They increase an organization’s efficiency during processes like sourcing, purchasing, supplier management, and spend analysis.

Optimal Sourcing

ivalua

JUNE 9, 2025

Requisitioning and Ordering AI streamlines purchasing by surfacing preferred suppliers and flagging non-compliant requests, reducing rogue spending and ensuring purchases align with negotiated contracts. Currently, IVA supports over 25 use cases across supplier management, sourcing, contract management and Procure-to-Pay.

Optimal Sourcing

SCMDOJO

JANUARY 9, 2025

Key Benefits of Strategic Sourcing Building Long-Term Supplier Partnerships Strategic sourcing focuses on identifying and collaborating with suppliers who align with a companys long-term goals. By fostering these relationships, businesses can ensure stable supply chains, consistent quality, and even access to supplier innovations.

Optimal Sourcing

ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. As supply chains become more interconnected and risks more dynamic, traditional procurement tools fall short. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle.

Optimal Sourcing

ivalua

MAY 30, 2025

AI is reshaping the way organizations source, manage suppliers, and drive value today. As supply chains become more interconnected and risks more dynamic, traditional procurement tools fall short. AI agents offer a smarter, faster way to manage sourcing, risk, and spend across the entire procurement lifecycle.

Optimal Sourcing

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supplier Collaboration for Agility Your world is characterized by dynamic market conditions, shifting customer demands, new technologies, rapidly changing regulations, and frequent supply chain disruptions. Decision-makers must plan supply chain resilience strategies for a wide range of risk scenarios.

Manufacturing Procurement

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Building Stronger Relationship s : Effective Approaches to Multi-Tier Supplier Collaboration A chain is only as strong as its weakest link—but what if you can’t evaluate the entire chain? Tier 1 suppliers and their suppliers—and their suppliers’ suppliers—make up an organization’s multi-tier supply chain.

Negotiate Pricing

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Introduction As global supply chains evolve, ensuring cost efficiency is crucial. One way to assess the cost performance of any function within the supply chain is through Cost Performance Index (CPI). Below are some key areas where CPI can improve supply chain efficiency: 1.

Negotiating Skills

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As procurement and supply chain leaders seek to optimize performance, collaboration with suppliers becomes a strategic tool for creating value for the business. From basic cost optimization to leveraging technology, we’ve laid out our six best practices for building and maintaining collaborative supplier relationships.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

Jassy called generative AI a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that will change the way the company operates, and said Amazon is already using it in “virtually every corner of the company,” calling out the supply chain areas of inventory and demand planning as examples. The Fed Downgrades GDP Forecast.

Supply Chain Planning Software

ivalua

MAY 10, 2025

This guide breaks down the key procurement technologies in use today and the trends reshaping the future, such as AI-driven sourcing, predictive risk management, and deeper integration across the supply chain. Explore Ivalua’s intake management solution.

Procurement Solutions

QAD

APRIL 8, 2025

Supply Chain Disruptions: Tariffs can lead to delays and inefficiencies in logistics. Shift in Supplier Dynamics: Companies may seek alternative sourcing options to mitigate cost increases. Optimized Supplier Selection Evaluate alternative suppliers based on performance metrics, transportation costs, and lead times.

Optimal Sourcing

AFFLINK

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

At AFFLINK , we've seen how automation transforms supplier management, helping businesses save time, improve efficiency, and build stronger supplier relationships. Automating supplier onboarding and management can set your business up for success.

Supply Chain Software

ivalua

JUNE 12, 2025

We’ll walk through key benefits, types of spend analysis, steps to get started, and metrics to track—backed by lessons learned from real-world implementations. Armed with this information, they can develop strategies to diversify their supplier base and establish contingency plans, reducing the risk of supply chain disturbances.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Jaggaer

MARCH 19, 2025

metric tons per person and in the European Union 5.66 metric tons per person. metric tons. The second has become more pronounced in recent years, notably with the Covid pandemic and supply chain disruptions. You will certainly be enriching your data on each supplier with up-to-date non-financial information.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Precoro

MAY 19, 2025

Some laws, such as the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act , also regulate sourcing practices and require large businesses to vet the supply chain for suppliers who engage in exploitative or unsustainable practices. This metric is especially important in public procurement among government agencies.

Procurement Analytics

Precoro

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Supplier sourcing Companies are increasingly using AI in sourcing and procurement to analyze supplier data and identify the best-fit suppliers based on factors like price, delivery performance, and quality. Predicting potential supply chain disruptions or supplier performance issues.

Price Reduction

SCMDOJO

MARCH 24, 2025

Introduction Gardner, (1954) and Huntzinger, (2007) define Purchase price variance (PPV) as a metric used to measure the effectiveness of cost-saving efforts by calculating the difference between the planned cost (standard pricing) allocated for purchasing activities and the actual cost incurred. worry no more! References Garnder, S.

Purchasing Skills

Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

JAGGAER characterizes the steps in this process as Spend Management, Category Management, Sourcing , and Contracts. Secondly come eProcurement, Supply Chain Collaboration, Invoicing, and Payments. Digitalization also fosters greater agility in supplier management.

Sourcing Strategies

Jaggaer

OCTOBER 23, 2024

We developed metrics to track progress toward DE&I goals. Our Supplier Management, Risk, and Performance solutions enable organizations to evaluate suppliers against sustainability criteria, track corporate social responsibility metrics, and assess carbon emissions per product.

Sustainability

Procurement Academy

JANUARY 16, 2025

Supplier Management Optimization Process audit reports are a great way to strengthen supplier relationships and negotiate better terms by evaluating the terms in which you work together. It can lead to better supplier selection and improved communication.

Procurement Analytics

Precoro

JUNE 3, 2025

It’s a way for companies to group similar goods or services (like IT infrastructure, facilities, or raw materials) and manage them holistically instead of handling every purchase in isolation. With today’s growing cost pressures and increasingly complex supply chains , quick fixes no longer cut it.

Manufacturing Procurement

Jaggaer

MARCH 24, 2025

Impact on Procurement: Gen AI leverages vast datasets to generate actionable insights, helping procurement teams predict future trends, such as market shifts, supplier performance, and demand fluctuations. Predictive AI, on the other hand, uses historical data to forecast potential disruptions, price changes, and supply chain risks.

Optimal Sourcing

Precoro

JULY 9, 2025

  Sourcing transformation often involves expanding the supplier network to make your supply chain more dependable. Book a Demo Risk mitigation and resilience Supply chain disruptions , inflation, and shifting regulations are part of business life. Supplier management.

Procurement Solutions

Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

Categories for the Pro-to-Know recognition include but are not limited to Supplier Management, Sourcing, Contract Management, eProcurement, Form Requests, and AP Automation. Metrics may include cycle times for each process, use of templates, user and supplier adoption, as well as process and cost savings.

Optimal Sourcing

RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Modern inventory management solutions have evolved far beyond basic stock counting. These sophisticated systems streamline operations, automate key processes, and provide real-time insights across the entire supply chain. The software analyzes historical sales data to predict future demand patterns using advanced analytics.

Inventory Management Software

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

From electronics manufacturers to retail giants, companies are grappling with a complex landscape of rising duties and other supply chain challenges. The stated aim of those measures is to bolster domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on foreign supply chains. Tariffs also destabilize supply chain operations.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

” Here is an excerpt from the article: “…it isn’t by becoming more efficient that the supply chains of Wal-Mart, Dell, and Amazon have given those companies an edge over their competitors. According to my research, top-performing supply chains possess three very different qualities.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2013

Yesterday, I finished a post on supply chain planning maturity. A client had asked me, “How do I know if we have a mature supply chain planning organization?” Excellence in supply chain planning is a cultural shift. It must be managed as a system. Reacting is rewarded and planning is not.

Supply Chain Planning Software

ivalua

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Future of Supplier Management is Here, and it’s Holistic. Leading, high-performing procurement organizations share one common trait–they consistently prioritize a holistic and integrated approach to Supplier Management. In fact, they go beyond simply supplier management, what they do is Supplier Engagement.

Supplier Management

QAD

JUNE 17, 2021

If the pandemic and other global events of the past year have taught us anything, it’s that supply chains are fragile and easily disrupted. Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises understand that integrated supplier management can reduce supply chain risk and improve business performance.

Supplier Management

Unleashed

MARCH 9, 2021

Procurement activities include planning, sourcing, and negotiation, along with risk management, legal and value analysis. This is often managed with the help of supplier management software or inventory management software. The pandemic’s global scale exposed largely unprecedented, supply chain vulnerabilities.

Procurement Analytics

ivalua

JUNE 11, 2021

Companies are being pressured on all sides to commit to Net Zero and CPOs should build their Net Zero goals by evaluating sustainability metrics into all aspects of their procurement decisions and processes. Now is the time to act, and to engage your supply chain on this important global issue. Sounds interesting? Sign up HERE.

Supplier Management

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the world, it is vital for organisations to ensure a reliable supply of products and services. Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. Leadership in Supply Chain. fashion, automotive, spare parts, airlines).

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

QAD

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Numerous forces drive your organization’s need for visibility across supplier activities. Global demand and supply chain networks naturally include distance, cultural, time-zone, tariff, geopolitical and other types of challenges when working with suppliers. To find out more, please visit our website.

Supplier Management